FreeBSD 6.0 and Sony Ericsson GC83

[Jeff Cross]

Mark A-J. Raught wrote:

>(forgot to cc the group when I sent this... maybe it'll help others too)
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>On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:32 -0600, Jeff Cross wrote:
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>>I have recently started using FreeBSD (5.4 briefly then on to 6.0) and 
>>love it!  For some reason I enjoy messing around with FreeBSD a lot more 
>>than I did Linux.  My FreeBSD install is currently on a Gateway 7326GZ 
>>(Intel) Laptop. 
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>>So far, everything is working as it should except I get no volume when 
>>playing audio files and I really don't know where to start with my 
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>This may help with your audio... I had the same problem and it drove me
>nuts for several days. I have a gateway 7325GZ and had to change ac97.c
>and ac97.h. I don't have my fbsd drive in now (in debian right now) but
>I googled and belive it was
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2004-May/006684.html
>that got it working for me.
>In linux (debian atleast) I have a script on starting X that mutes the
>external amp to get sound working (amixer -c 0 sset 'External
>Amplifier',0 mute)
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>maybe one of those will help get you pointed in the right direction.
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> Just remember if you diff the ac97.h and ac97.c, when you cvsup it will
>replace those files (which I leave alone so I can test newer versions
>before rediffing)
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>-mark
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Thanks for the reply, Mark.  I have read the post on the link you 
provided and see the "patched code" at the bottom of it.  However, I am 
a bit of a novice when it comes to patching and recompiling drivers.  
Can you lend me any assistance on how I can retrieve the patch 
(download?, copy & paste to new file?, etc.), apply the patch and 
recompile the driver to create a kernel module?

I hope this will correct my audio issues on my laptop.  I appreciate you 
posting this information and look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Jeff Cross